Film Adaptation

Call For Papers

Deadline for Proposals: 11/30/08

PCA/ACA Conference: (April 8 – 11 2009)

Film Adaptation is the movie medium that reshapes myth, medicine, monsters, music, magic, mummies, Marvel comics, and much, much more!  Alliteration aside (sorry), film adaptation is any movie adapted to screen to portray everything from history and politics to Frank Miller's Sin City and 300.  There's whole sets of Shakespeare adaptations.  Even DC and Marvel comics!  Heck, we could write an entire book on film adaptation--hey, wait...we did! 

From Camera Lens to Critical Lens was published with Cambridge SP in 2006, using papers on everything from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Hitchcock to The Hours to Daughters of the Dust based on the work of participants from the 2005 and 2006 conferences!  There have also been many Film Adaptation participants who have had papers published in the Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of American Culture, and more.

Before we go any further, I want to make clear this is the PCA FILM ADAPTATION area--NOT affiliated with the ADAPTATION area--that's a whole different ball game, folks.  We focus only on FILM ADAPTATION.  Any kind of Film Adaptation--I want to see proposals on everything and anything--hypermasculinity in Fight Club? You betcha! Comic book/graphic novel adaptations as twenty-first century mythology--yes, yes, yes!!!  Arthurian/Robin Hood/medieval film adaptations as a way of promoting patriarchy--yeah, baby, yeah!  Austin Powers franchise as adaptation of 60's spy flicks--absitively posilutely!  Remember, NO LIMITS on what you propose (I'm up for just about anything).  Here are some topic suggestions below (just suggestions):

-comics/graphic novels as film adaptation (XMen, Spiderman, Fantastic Four, etc.)

-Arthurian literature in/and film adaptation (Arthur, Excaliber, First Knight, etc.)

-anything Australian in/and film adaptation (Crocodile Dundee, Muriel's Wedding, etc.)

-gender in/and film adaptation (Fight Club, etc.)

-author representations in/and film adaptation (The Hours, etc.)

-political representations in/and film adaptation (An Inconvenient Truth, etc.)

-ANY literature in/and film adaptation (Running with Scissors, Everything is Illuminated, etc.)

-Shakespeare in/and film adaptation (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare in Love, etc.)

-Chaucer in/and film adaptation (Knight's Tale, etc.)

-anything medieval in/and film adaptation (Robin Hood, etc.)

-Post-colonialism in/and film adaptation (Vanity Fair, etc.)

-Technology/globalization in/and film adaptation (iRobot, XMen, etc.)

-war/history in/and film adaptation (Bobby, Band of Brothers, etc.)

-medicine/illness in/and film adaptation (The Doctor, Terms of Endearment, Finding Neverland, etc.)

-music in/and film adaptation (Pink Floyd's The Wall, etc.)

-poetry in/and adaptation (Troy, etc.)

-monsters in/and film adaptation (Frankenstein, The Mummy, Interview with a Vampire, etc.)

-fathers in/and film adaptation (Father of the Bride, Hamlet, etc.)

-mothers in/and film adaptation (Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Georgia Rule, Finding Neverland, etc.)

-love in/and film adaptation (almost ANY film adaptation...)

-European representations in/and film adaptation (European Vacation, James Bond, etc.)

-Hollywood in/and film adaptation (Stuck on You, etc.)

-social commentary in/and film adaptation (Farenheit 9-11, Thank You for Not Smoking, etc.)

-videogames in/and film adaptation (Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Doom, etc.)

-parody in/and film adaptation (Blades of Glory, Anchorman, Zoolander, etc.)

-biopics as adaptation (Ray, Walk the Line, etc.)

-aliens in/and film adaptation (Independence Day, Alien vs. Predator, etc.)

-Speilberg and film adaptation (Munich, etc.)

So what do you say?  Let's see those (200 words or less) proposals no later than November 30th!  I'm "super-psyched"! :)  Please include your name, affiliation, email, and other contact info IN-TEXT of an email--no attachments, please--but if you must, only in WORD--thanks.

Hey!  Did I mention that the conference is going to be in New Orleans?!?!

Got ???  Please email Dr. Rebecca Housel at rahgsl@rit.edu.  Looking forward to seeing you in the Big Easy!